Baby Won't You Please Come Home Bessie Smith

(Clarence Williams / Charles Warfield) I've got the blues, I feel so lonely I'll give the world if I could only Make you understand It surely would be grand I'm gonna telephone my baby Ask him won't

Bessie Smith Bob Dylan

see her soon Goin' down the road t' see Bessie Smith When I get there I wonder what she'll do Now all the crazy things I had to try Well I tried them all and then some But if you're lucky one day you

Do Your Duty Bessie Smith

If I cal three times a day baby Come and drive my blue away When you come, be ready to play Do your duty If you want to have some love Give your baby your last buck Don't come quackin' like

Cake Walkin' Babies From Home Bessie Smith

Cake walkers may come, cake walkers may go, but I wanna tell you 'bout a couple I know High steppin' pair, Debonair When it comes for bus'ness not a soul can compare Here they come, look at 'em, demonstratin

You've Got To Give Me Some Bessie Smith

Loving is the thing I crave For your love I'll be your slave You gotta give me some, yes give me some Can't you hear me pleading, you gotta give me some Said mister Jones to old butcher Pete

Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) Bessie Smith

Dixie moonlight, Swanee shore Headed homebound just once more To my Mississippi delta home Southland has that grand garden spot Although you believe or not I hear those breeze a-whispering:

Pickpocket Blues Bessie Smith

gin They even told me to keep my hands Out people's pocket where their money was in But I wouldn't listen or have any shame, 'long as someone else would take the blame Now I can see it all come

See If I'll Care Bessie Smith

You say that you leavin' ant that you going away But before you leave, dear, please let me have my say I know that you feel good now with nothin' on your mind But just mark my words, dear, there'll

You've Been A Good Ole Wagon Bessie Smith

I want to tell you please get out of my sight I'm playing quits now : right from this very night You've have your day : don't stand around and frown You've been a good old wagon : daddy but you done

Devil's Gonna Git You Bessie Smith

It's a long, long lane that has no turning And it's a fire that always keeps on burning Mister devil down below Pitchfork in his hand And that's where you are going to go Do you understand?

Baby Doll Bessie Smith

your mama wild It must be something they call the Cuban Doll, It weren't your mama's angel child I went to see the doctor the other day, he said I's well as well could be But I said, "Doctor, you

Alexander's Ragtime Band Bessie Smith

"Come on and hear, come on and hear Alexander's Ragtime Band Come on and hear, come on and hear It's the best band in the land They can play a bugle call Like you never heard before So natural that you

'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do Bessie Smith

I can do, or nothing I can say That folks don't criticize me But I'm goin' to, do just as I want to anyway And don't care if they all despise meIf I should take a notion To jump into the ocean 'T

Lost Your Head Blues Bessie Smith

I was with you, baby, when you didn't have a dime I was with you, baby, when you didn't have a dime Now since you got a lot of money, you have thrown a good gal down Once ain't for always and

Thinking Blues Bessie Smith

Thinking about someone who has treated you so nice and kind You'll get an old letter and you begin to read You'll get an old letter and you begin to read Got the blues so bad tell that man of mine

Guitar Boogie Arthur Smith

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After You've Gone Bessie Smith

Now won't you listen dearie while I say, How could you tell me that you're goin' away?

Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There) Bessie Smith

For to park his old hips He must get it, and bring it, and put it right here Or else he's gonna keep it out there The bee gets the honey, and brings it to the corn Else he's kicked out of his home

Poor Man's Blues Bessie Smith

rich-man, open up your heart and mind Mister rich-man, rich-man, open up your heart and mind Give the poor man a chance, help stop these hard, hard times While you're livin' in your mansion you

Hard Time Blues Bessie Smith

Don't say a word, just listen) The risin' sun ain't gonna set in the east no more The risin' sun ain't gonna set in the east no more 'Cause I'm a good woman I can get a man any place I go You

Chicago Bound Blues Bessie Smith

refused to talk Blues on my brain, my tongue refused to talk I was followin' my daddy but my feet refuses to walk Mean old fireman, cruel old engineer Lord mean old fireman, cruel old engineer You

Down Hearted Blues Bessie Smith

Gee, but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you!

Boweavil Blues Bessie Smith

Boweavil Blues Hey boweavil don't bring them blues no more Hey boweavil don't bring them blues no more Boweavil's here, boweavil's everywhere you go I'm a lone boweavil, been out a great long

Downhearted Blues Bessie Smith

Gee, but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you!

Empty Bed Blues Bessie Smith

sleeping single like I do Bought him a blanket, pillow for his head at night Bought him a blanket, pillow for his head at night Then I bought him a mattress so he could lay just right He came home

Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair Bessie Smith

Judge you wanna hear my plea, before you open up your court But I don't want no sympathy, 'cause I done cut my good man's throat I caught him with a trifling Jane, I warned him 'bout before I

Squeeze Me Bessie Smith

Daddy, you've been doggone sweet on me, daddy, you the only one I see You know I need but you 'cause you my man, you can love me like no one can Something 'bout you I can't resist, and when you kiss

St. Louis Blues (성 루이 블루스) Bessie Smith

I'll love ma baby till the day ah die. Been to de gypsy to get ma fortune tole,? To de gypsy, done got ma fortune tole,? Cause I'm most wile 'bout ma Jelly Roll.

St. Louis Blues (세인트 루이스 블루스) Bessie Smith

I'll love ma baby till the day ah die. Been to de gypsy to get ma fortune tole,? To de gypsy, done got ma fortune tole,? Cause I'm most wile 'bout ma Jelly Roll.

The St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith

I hate to see de evenin' sun go down, Hate to see de evenin' sun go down 'Cause ma baby, he done lef' dis town.

Stone For Bessie Smith Dory Previn

isn't it amazing shakes you to the bone she bought a stone for bessie smith she bought bessie smith a stone she got it for her grave-site on a temporary loan but she forgot she had not paid for her own

Ain't No More Cane Bob Dylan

see her soon Goin' down the road t' see Bessie Smith When I get there I wonder what she'll do Now all the crazy things I had to try Well I tried them all and then some But if you're lucky one day you

Graveyard Dream Blues Bessie Smith

night that the man that I love was dead I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees I went to the graveyard, fell down on my knees And I asked the gravedigger to give me back my real good man please

Empty Bed Blues (Part 2) Bessie Smith

getting rusty, sleeping single like I doBought him a blanket, pillow for his head at night Bought him a blanket, pillow for his head at night Then I bought him a mattress so he could lay just rightHe came home

Empty Bed Blues (Parts 1 & 2) Bessie Smith

getting rusty, sleeping single like I doBought him a blanket, pillow for his head at night Bought him a blanket, pillow for his head at night Then I bought him a mattress so he could lay just rightHe came home

Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl Bessie Smith

dog on my roll I can stand a bit of lovin', oh so bad I feel so funny, I feel so sad I need a little steam-heat on my floor Maybe I can fix things up, so they'll go What's the matter hard papa Come

Harriet Jones Eric Benet

Won\'t you listen Miss Jones Let me please come home Please girl .....

St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith

I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate to see that evening sun go down 'Cause my lovin' baby done left this town If I feel tomorrow like I feel today If I feel tomorrow like I feel today

Backwater Blues Bessie Smith, Bessie Smith

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night Then trouble's takin' place in the lowlands at night I woke up this mornin', c...

Oh Daddy Blues Bessie Smith

Because I'm lonesome for you And if you care for me Then you will listen to my plea Oh, daddy, look what you doin', look what you doin' Oh, daddy, you with your foolin', think what you're losin' All

New Orleans Hop Scop Blues Bessie Smith

Old New Orleans is a great big old southern town, where hospitality you will surely find The population there is very, very fair, with ev'rything they do White folks do it too, they have a dance surely

Keep It To Yourself Bessie Smith

Keep It To Yourself If your man is nice and sweet Serving you lots of young pigmeat Oh yes, keep it to yourself If you know you are standing fast Got him worried where you at Oh yes, keep it

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Bessie Smith

and wine Then I began to fall so low, I didn't have a friend, and no place to go So if I ever get my hand on a dollar again, I'm gonna hold on to it till them eagle's grin Nobody knows you

Preachin' The Blues Bessie Smith

I've been in love for the last six months and ain't done worrying yet Moan'em blues, holler them blues Let me convert your soul 'Cause just a little spirit of the blues tonight Let me tell you

A Good Man Is Hard To Find Bessie Smith

man's treating me mean I regret the day that I was born and that man of mine I've ever seen Happiness, it never lasts a day, my heart is almost breaking while I say A good man is hard to find, you

Careless Love Blues Bessie Smith

"Love, oh love, oh careless love You've fly through my head like wine You've wrecked the life of a many poor girl And you nearly spoiled this life of mine Love, oh love, oh careless love In your clutches

Careless Love Bessie Smith

Love, oh love, oh careless love You've fly through my head like wine You've wrecked the life of a many poor girl And you nearly spoiled this life of mine Love, oh love, oh careless love In your clutches

Mean Old Bedbug Blues Bessie Smith

night, I wonder how can a poor gal sleep When I lay down at night, I wonder how can a poor gal sleep When some is holding my hand, others eating my feet Bed bug as big as a jackass1, will bite you

Me And My Gin Bessie Smith

Don't try me nobody, oh, you will never win. Don't try me nobody 'cause you will never win. I'll fight the army, navy just me and my gin. Any bootlegger sure is a pal of mine.

The Yellow Dog Blues Bessie Smith

Ever since Miss Susie Johnson Lost her jockey Lee There has been much excitement And more to be You can hear her moanin? Moanin?